MUSIC: Nirvana's Nevermind 20 Years Later

20 years ago popular music was ripped apart to reveal a new underground movement, hell-bent on screaming it's way past the superficial dribble that had plagued the late 80's. Spearheading this movement was Nirvana. The influence this band has had on popular culture - not only in music but in literature, fashion and film is legendary. Doc Martins, ripped up jeans, converse shoes, egg-shell sunglasses, cardigans and eyeliner; soon even Hugo Boss was copying it. Though commercialization was quick to kill the songs and spirit live on.

Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the release. Back then Kurt and Nirvana smirked at comments that the record might go on to sell 100,000...now it's beyond 10,000,000. With loads of great commemoration events going on, not least the official benefit concert hosted by Kris Novoselic this is going to be an exciting few days. Long Live Punk n' Roll!

 

Many were the fashion trends that Kurt Cobain set in motion.

Feel free to post your favorite nirvana moments and songs.

Fashion Beat 2010 Highlights - Roskilde Festival Street Artists

During the Roskilde Festival in Denmark we spoke with a series of street artists who were using their surroundings for inspiration within their art. Check out the videos below where we discuss how Fashion and Art relate to each other.

Fashion Beat TV 2010 Highlights

Now that the New Year is about to get well underway with this season's major Fashion Weeks kicking off, the Berlinale Film Festival next month and many of the leading Art Galleries opening their first main exhibitions of the year, We decided to take a look back and showcase some of the Fashion Beat TV highlights of 2010. These include Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, London Film Festival, the New York Art Scene and more. We'll be posting the vids on here, so check them out over the next days. Bring on 2011!

H&M Fashion Against Aids @ Roskilde Festival

Facehunter caught snapping during the Blogger Party @ Copenhagen Fashion Week w. FBtv Djs

Ghost Zine artists

We love New York

With Cannes- and London Film Festival-Winner, Janus Metz, director of "Armadillo"

FASHION: Blurring The Edges of Fashion & Art

Many of the new names to emerge on to the fashion scene this past year have displayed a strong visual inspiration from the art world. With painting, prints and composite looks they follow in the footsteps of designers such as Elsa Schiaperelli who was greatly inspired by the Surrealists.

One of the spearheads of the Art/Fashion movement in the UK is Scottish designer and graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art Iona Crawford who paints her Scottish rural surroundings, creating prints from them to use on her mix of linens and Scottish cashmere. Check her out here.

BFC NewGen Award-Winning, Dutch designer Michael Van Der Ham, who debuted at this year's September London Fashion Week, lists Any Warhol's composite dresses as a major source of inspiration. He is certainly one of the hottest-tipped new designers of the moment.  You can see more here.

Designs, from left, by Michael Van der Ham, Felicity Brown, Mary Katrantzou, Holly Fulton and Anthony Vaccarello. source: FT.com

MUSIC: Fashion Beat TV DJs

Karim played a punk n' roll DJ set featuring the likes of Wolf Parade, Blood Red Shoes, Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Friendly Fires and La Belle Indifference during Copenhagen Fashion Week to a crowd gone WILD!

photo by Maren Bjørgum  of Lostmyhead

FASHION: CPH FW minimarket

One of the most anticipated shows at CPH Fashion Week was Swedish label minimarket showing a very African-inspired range of headpieces. 

FASHION: CPH FW Simon Rasmussen

Danish Stylist of The Year Award-winner Simon Rasmussen brought together installation art, performance and fashion in a spectacular and gritty show. This being a concept showpiece collection, we are interested to see what Simon has in store for us in the more high fashion category in the future. We will be uploading more photos from the show to our photostream soon.

FASHION: Interview with Fiona Jane

Fashion Beat TV are pleased to introduce Danish fashion blogger Fiona Jane who runs the blog Spotding.com. Fiona also works for the Danish fashion magazine Cover. This year she will be hosting a new event at Copenhagen International Fashion Fair taking place on August 12-14th called Blogger Camp. Fashion Beat TV brings you the low-down on what it's all about:

Fashion Beat tv: What was the motivation for creating the first ever Blogger Camp at CPH Vision/Terminal-2, during Copenhagen Fashion Week?

Fiona Jane:The number of bloggers is growing every day and we thought they needed a platform where they could be during Copenhagen Fashion Week. Our motivation was to bring together bloggers and create a space for them to work from. We call it 'BLOGGER CAMP'. Here bloggers can come and upload entries to their blog, talk to other bloggers, get new inspiration from our speeches and well known bloggers.

FBtv: What can guests expect from it?

FJ: They can expect a unique insight to the blogosphere where some of today's biggest bloggers will appear (Hanneli, Pelayo, Facehunter,Lesmads.de), together with lots of other international bloggers. We hope that our speeches from Anna Frellesen from INSIDEPEOPLE, Yvan Rodic from FACEHUNTER & Lecturer Christian Stadsgaard from KEA-Design, will inspire and teach people about blogging. Companies can be inspired to rethink their marketing strategies and see possibilities of integrating blogs. 

Friday at 3pm we have a panel where bloggers will be answering questions about the blogging phenomenon. - We hope that BLOGGER CAMP will be a huge success and a given event for many people in the business to attend.

FBtv: Where can bloggers and other fashion interested guests find out more and gain access?

FJ: You can find out more about BLOGGER CAMP at our homepages: Cover.dk cphvision.dk. You can gain access by sending a mail with your info (name, website, titel) to bloggercamp@cover.dk.

FASHION: Blogger Camp After Party!

Fashion Beat TV's very own Karim Theilgaard will be headlining DJ @ the official Copenhagen Fashion Week Blogger Camp After Party Friday the 13th August. Check out the cool vid in the link and don't forget to RSVP your names for the guestlist.

FASHION: Copenhagen Fashion Week

This week Fashion Beat TV will be attending Copenhagen Fashion Week (11th-15 August), Denmark. We have been invited to take part in the new Blogger Camp , hosted by Danish fashion blogger Fiona Jane of Spotding.com and Cover Magazine. We will be joining the panel discussions alongside other well-known bloggers including Yvan Rodic of Facehunter, Pelayo Diaz Zapico of Katelovesme and Maria Nguyen of Vanilla Scented on Friday 13th in the Terminal 2 building.